A cursory reading of that text suggests that while Glenn Beck's "new world order" inspires fear, panic and despair in the face of the approaching one-world government, the "new heaven and new earth" is something quite different -- an entirely new order that brings hope, peace and comfort in a world without "mourning nor crying nor pain."

Pat Robertson, a preacher and onetime contender for the Republican presidential nomination, gave voice to these fears in his 1991 book, The New World Order, which claimed to expose a vast conspiracy to create a one-world government.

In the upcoming issue of Newsweek, Evan Thomas and Eve Conant report on how “‘Patriot’ groups — described by the [Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)] as outfits ‘that see the federal government as part of a plot to impose ‘one-world government’ on liberty-loving Americans’ — are ‘roaring back’ after years out of the limelight.”